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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 21, 1990                   TAG: 9003212325
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The New York Times
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FRENCH ACTRESS CAPUCINE KILLED IN EIGHT-FLOOR FALL

Capucine, the patrician French actress who starred in international movies of the 1960s like "The Pink Panther" and "What's New, Pussycat?," was killed on Saturday in a fall from her eighth-floor apartment in Lausanne, Switzerland. She was 57 years old.

Her death was a suicide, the police reported Tuesday.

A Lausanne newspaper, Le Matin, quoted an unidentified friend as saying that Capucine had been suffering from profound depression.

The trim actress with classic, Nefertiti-like features was born on Jan. 6, 1933, into a middle-class family in Toulon. Her original name was Germaine Lefebvre.

The score of films she made included "A Walk on the Wild Side," a sensational 1962 melodrama, and "Fellini Satyricon," the flamboyant 1969 ode to ancient Rome.

Others included two adventure films with William Holden, "The Lion" and "The 7th Dawn." Holden, who had a home in Switzerland and who died in 1981, bequeathed her $50,000.

There are no confirmed survivors.

by CNB